Business View Civil and Municipal | May 2021

164 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL MAY 2021 ensure you can support the application in terms of speed, latency, security, resiliency and cost. Typically, most outdoor IoT networks, and smart streetlight controls fall into this category, are low bandwidth networks, so you aren’t going to want to use it to transfer video. We need to step back, just like we would before investing in any solution, and evaluate the requirements, trade- offs and potential value the various use cases can bring to the city or the utility that wants to build upon its street lighting network.” This is something that CIMCON is already pioneering through its own smart city platform. “Our platform is called ‘NearSky and is comprised of the NearSky 360 edge processing hub and StreetVibe, our cloud-based software visualization software’,” says Flaherty. “We’re using the NearSky 360 to pull in data from all of these different sensors, like cameras, air quality monitors, and sound detectors, and collate that data into one place before sending it to the Bob Flaherty, Senior Vice President